A quantitative study for Java microprocessor architectural requirements. Part II: high-level language support

Java was designed for network programming. This imposes certain requirement s on its virtual machine instruction set architecture and on designs that i ntend to support Java. The purpose of this study is to carry out a behavior al analysis of the different aspects of Java instruction see architecture. Performance metrics were collected through benchmarking a bytecode interpre ter. In this second part of our two-part paper, we study the instruction se t utilization, instruction execution time, method invocation behavior, and the effect of object-orientation. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.